Co-founded by Professor Desirée Plata, the company is already producing nickel and cobalt from battery scrap in Ohio. […]
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Co-founded by Professor Desirée Plata, the company is already producing nickel and cobalt from battery scrap in Ohio. […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at MIT has announced new leadership appointments for its two research laboratories. Effective July 1, Professor John Ochsendorf, will serve as the next Director of the Pierce Laboratory, and Professor Desirée Plata, will […]
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis. […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty promotions: Lydia Bourouiba is promoted to the rank of full Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Bourouiba received her PhD from McGill University […]
Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions. […]
Plata’s expertise in academics and industry will help advance the mission of the consortium and propel implementable climate solutions forward. […]
Desirée Plata aims to capture methane before it warms the climate. At one of the nation’s largest dairy farms, environmental engineer Desirée Plata and her students wade through the muck of a thousand cattle. Inside the football field–sized […]
President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Desirée Plata about her research — and what she wishes students knew about their professors. […]
Member companies of startup incubator Greentown Labs, Nth Cycle and QuantAQ are forging a path in the climatetech space based on research their CEO’s completed in graduate school. Nth Cycle is a metals refining company co-founded […]
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce the following faculty have been granted tenure by MIT: Otto Cordero was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2022. Cordero’s research looks […]
With special treatment, minerals called zeolites — commonly found in cat litter — can efficiently remove the greenhouse gas from the air, researchers report. Methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and […]
CEE and DUSP faculty members recognized for excellence in leadership, service, and impactful work tackling environmental and social justice issues. MIT associate professors Desirée Plata and Justin Steil have been named recipients of the 2020-21 Harold […]
Former postdoc Wenbo Shi in Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor Desiree Plata’s lab and colleagues from Yale University research is featured on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials. Their paper titled, “Engineering carbon nanotube […]